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Senate Rejects Privacy Project - The TIA is not dead yet, but this is a definate step in the right direction. It makes me feel that my letters to my Senators and Congresswoman were not in vain.
Big Macs Can Make You Fat? No Kidding, a Judge Rules - I’m sure they will try this again, but it does make me think their is some sanity on the bench.
In an attempt to maintain karmic balance, I am posting a happy entry. I went out for a walk this morning in the snow and took some pictures. I have posted some of the better ones in my online photo gallery. I hope you like them.
The gallery includes images I took today and a few I took from Wednesday’s snow.
After looking at Elizabeth and I’s phone calling habits, we decided that having two phone lines and having long distance (and being charged a minimum fee for never using it) was just silly. So Elizabeth decided to get a cel phone, and we decided to cancel our second line and long distance.
Then began the good phone company call and the bad phone comapny call.
Continues…
Later this week, a conference will begin at MIT to help in the technological war against spam. (Wired article) They will be discussing how both the law and technology can work together to stop the problem. This is a good thing, but I did have a quite scary thought when reading this article.
What happens when the spammers build their messages with some stupid “encoding” scheme, then sue the anti-spam software developers under the DMCA? ick. I hope they don’t read that.
Cringley really does have a good outlook on the industry. He says a a few things I had already figured out, and a few things that I responded to with an “oh yeh!”